Leyicet Peralta is an American who is mostly recognized as Danny Gokey’s wife. However, apart from just being the American Idol star’s wife, she is also a model and reality TV star who had always been interested in modeling. Leyicet really loved modeling so much and wanted to establish a career in the industry since she was quite young.
Peralta starred in the NuvoTV reality competition series of Model Latina in 2008. She has been quite lucky in the industry as she has worked with several esteemed magazines and other TV series. She has also featured on television series like ‘A Model Recap’, ‘Ugly Beauty’, ‘Jessy’s Girl’, ‘On-Call Part 2:LA’, On-Call Part 3: Miami’, and On-Call Part 1; NY’.
Brief Biography Of Leyicet Peralta
Peralta was born on March 22, 1986, in Miami, Florida, United States. The model is said to have graduated from Florida. There is no much detail about where Peralta was raised, her parents, and her siblings although we know she is originally of Cuban-Peruvian ethnicity.
As stated, Leyicet is more known for her union with former American Idol finalist, singer, and songwriter, Danny Gokey with whom she has four kids together (Daniel, Isabella, Gabriel, and Emmanuel).
Here are some interesting things to know about her.
10 Unknown Facts About Leyicet Peralta
1. Leyicet Peralta’s Career Aside Reality-TV
Leyicet Peralta actually started her career as a correspondent who used to get inquiries to interview artists and do some print works. Alongside her TV shows and featuring in small roles in films, she also ran commercials.
2. Leyicet Peralta’s Real Passion
Leyicet Peralta was more passionate about her education and finishing her degree in Journalism than she was about continuing with TV. In a way, she felt more fulfilled studying Journalism than in appearing before the camera and featuring in films and commercials.
3. Leyicet Moved From Being A Major In Maths To Journalism
She moved from being a math major to Journalism and with her degree in this field, she has been able to help her husband edit his work even more than she has written and published for herself.
Peralta believes that her switch from maths to journalism was a call from God so she would be able to help her husband and their family.
4. The Beautiful Story About How The Couple Met And Started Dating
Peralta and Gokey met on twitter which the latter claims he is not proud of. It was three years after his wife passed and he finally felt like dating again. Even though he had been on a few dates before he met the model, he was unable to connect with anyone. But when he saw Peralta’s picture and profile on Twitter, he decided to give it a try so he reached out to her.
Peralta who usually wouldn’t respond to such messages was instantly drawn to Danny because he wrote to her in Spanish. They had a long-distance relationship because she lived in Miami and he was in Nashville but the relationship pulled through with the help of Skype.
5. Their Love Life Started In 2011
Peralta and Gokey started dating in 2011, they announced their engagement on December 25, 2011, on Sophia’s heart website. Gokey surprised his girlfriend with a beautiful and glittering round cut diamond ring when he took her to an intimate dinner by the ocean under a beautiful sunset in Miami.
After they had dinner, he took her to the place they had their first date. Before he popped the question, he sang a song her mother used to sing to her when she was a baby.
6. Leyicet Peralta And Danny Gokey Gave Out All Their Wedding Gifts
She married Danny Gokey on January 29, 2012, in Florida together with family and friends at the beautiful wedding ceremony, although there was an intimate ceremony on 30 November 2011 which people didn’t know about. So the first date is the date the media assumed was their wedding day.
The couple’s gifts during the ceremony were made as donations to the children’s charity in the Sophia Heart Foundation. The lovebirds went off to the Dominican Republic for their honeymoon after the wedding.
7. Leyicet Peralta Struggled After Her First Child
When she had her first child, Peralta was balancing between taking care of the 1-year-old and her class schedule. She was attending college with a major in broadcast journalism. At some point, her father started living with the Gokeys to help take care of the toddler.
Right now, Leyicet and her husband do not only have a happy home but are also blessed with four kids which they are totally proud of. Their children are Daniel Emanuel, Victoria Isabella, and Gabriel Daniel. The last child, Emanuel Daniel was born in 2018.
8. Leyicet Peralta Was A Source Of Hope To Danny During His Dark Days
Her husband, Danny Gokey had been with his first wife, Sophia for 12 years. He lost her four weeks before he auditioned for an American idol during her third surgery in July 2008. Gokey credits his late wife for his success. Sophia was a big fan of American idols and encouraged Gokey to be a contestant.
After the death of his first wife, Danny withdrew and decided to stay away from dating and love and mourned the death of his wife for years. However, when he met and became familiar with Leyicet, he found reason to love again and he began to see life as beautiful as it was. Peralta brought new rays of sunshine to Danny and he is forever grateful to her for coming into his life at the time she did.
9. Leyicet Goes On Tours With Her Husband Danny Gokey
Leyicet loves to tour around the world with her husband. She totally loves her family and spending time with them that she doesn’t mind touring with her musician husband. She admits to never being bored of going on tours with him and that she loves it because one of the beautiful things that keeps them strongly together is doing various activities as a couple.
Leyicet has proven that traveling or just going on fun trips with her husband and family is one of her favorite things to do.
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10. Leyicet And Her Husband Are Strong Believers
Leyicet Peralta and her husband Danny Gokey, mostly a gospel artist, strongly believe in God and pray together. Leyicet believes that praying together has kept their relationship and marriage strong and has brought them thus far together. She is one of those people who believes that ‘A couple that prays together, stays together’. One of the songs she inspired her husband Danny to write titled ‘Tell Somebody’ is a testimony of how she found God.
